The father of Phyna who won the 2022 BBNaija ‘Level Up’ edition grand prize of N100 million, has said that the beautiful lady abandoned family since after winning the contest.
It would be recalled that the family had stormed the BBNaija grand finale venue, to show solidarity with their reality TV star daughter.
But the family said the very day Phyna was announced winner of BBNaija season 7, in 2022 was the last time they have set their eyes on her.
The family also said Phyna neither calls nor answers her parents’ calls since she left the BBNaija house while she is seen all over social media, displaying affluence, posh and class.
Narrating his ordeal to a Vanguard reporter during the week, Phyna’s father, Mr Felix Otabor said what was disturbing him at the moment was not the fact that his daughter refused to return to them after her victory at BBNaija,, but that she had asked him to stop being an ambulance driver, with the hope that things would be better for him.
He sais- “I haven’t seen Phyna, my daughter since she won BBNaija ‘Level Up’ edition last year. She hasn’t returned home since then. I don’t know why? I am a professional hearse driver, and when she won the reality TV show, she asked me to do away with all my old cars, promising to change my life. But since then, I haven’t seen her. And I don’t have a car again. Once in a while, the Vice-Chairman of our association will allow me to drive his own car.
“I sold all my four cars because at the time, my daughter won the show, I thought that God had finally answered our prayers. I called her on the telephone, and she said God has blessed us. She asked me to do away with all my old cars, or she would give them out to Aboki, any day she returned. So, instead of allowing her to dash out my cars to scavengers, I decided to sell them as scraps and used the proceeds to renovate my house. And that was the beginning of my suffering. I stopped doing my business because I had no car again. And my neighbours thought I was either stingy or pretending as if my daughter just won a N100 million grand prize. I was the Vice-Chairman of our association, but when I couldn’t show up at our station for some time, they replaced me with another person.
“From that moment, things started getting tough for me. I am even looking for somebody that will give me a car on hire purchase. I need help, it has come to that point/. I don’t want to die in silence.’
68-year old Otobar hails from Ekpeon, in Edo State but resides in Lagos and is the father of four children.